IANYAN Magazine

By Liana Aghajanian • August 27th, 2010

Calling all linguists! A user in the community weblog Metafilter has run into a possibly Armenian-related conundrum.
“I just bought a postcard written in what looks like Armenian sent from what is now Lviv to what is now Chernivtsi (in what is now Ukraine), sometime between 1905 and (I’m guessing from the stamp) the end of [...]

“I don’t feel words have less power,” says Armenian photojournalist Anush Babajanyan, “but images can put someone in a sort of trance, sometimes I look at a photo for several minutes, loving and feeling it.”
A graduate of the American University in Bulgaria, Babajanyan contends those are exactly the types of photos she wants to take, [...]

Vampires, at least in the world of entertainment have slowly been outnumbering their human counterparts over the last two years or so. With the adolescent phenomenon known as Twilight saturating the market with a book series and subsequent book-based films, as well as Charlaine Harris’ charming Sookie Stackhouse series that launched HBO’s “True Blood” series, [...]

In this edition of “Overheard on the Net,” the comments have come out of a mixed bag - there are some that will make you cringe, laugh and feel all warm and tingly inside. Let’s get to them, shall we?

I know he’s speaking Spanish, but you would think he is Armenian with the amount of [...]

With a logo based on an ancient Armenian coin found after doing research for several months, boutiques in New York City and Philadelphia, custom orders and an Etsy shop, fashion designer Tamara Pogosian is one busy and passionate woman.
Getting her start in the industry by working as an assistant for the women’s and men’s design [...]

Although commercial property insurance broker Anush Movsesian Avejic’s day begins at an early 5:30 a.m, it doesn’t stop her from coming home every evening after a long day of work and designing jewelry in the shape of colorful bracelets with eye motifs and pomegranate necklaces with red Czech crystals as seeds. With an Esty store [...]

Patrick Bachian will be one of 49 Armenian artists whose work will be exhibited in the lounges of the Palais de Bondy in Lyon, France, presented in the framework of an exhibition titled “The ArtShow of Armenian Artists.” Growing up in Lebanon in the 70s, Bachian drew and painted for pleasure and to [...]